TikTok vows legal challenge to potential US ban [Video]

(CNN) — TikTok will file a court challenge if Congress passes legislation paving the way to a nationwide ban of the app, a top executive told employees in an internal memo obtained by CNN.

On Saturday the House of Representatives passed a foreign aid package containing language that could lead to a ban of TikTok — and the bill could pass the Senate within days, Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s head of public policy for the Americas, warned employees in the memo he sent the same day.

“At the stage that the bill is signed [by President Joe Biden], we will move to the courts for a legal challenge,” Beckerman wrote to staff, describing the legislation as “an unprecedented deal worked out between the Republican Speaker [Mike Johnson] and President Biden.”

“This is the beginning, not the end of this long process,” Beckerman added. He invited employees to an internal town hall scheduled for Wednesday “for …